We talked about Scott Walker's Orwellian rhetoric yesterday, but Michigan Tea Party Gov. Rick Snyder leaves Walker in the dust when it comes to turning the book "1984" into a reality.

<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Snyder recently signed a bill that gives him powers to unilaterally take over local governments by appointing "emergency financial managers" with near absolute powers to supersede decisions made by democratically elected officials.
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If this strikes some as an example of the type of governmental tyranny that the Tea Party deplored (but never existed before in a state as far as we know), that is because it is.

The Tea Party - and the Republican Party - have shouted to the rooftops that local government and individual liberties are the true "patriotic" freedoms in America.

Yet, they elect a governor in Michigan who - as one of his first pieces of legislation - empowers himself to take those rights away, nullifying the will of the voters in a given town or city.

Snyder just made Orwellian Tea Party history when his appointed "emergency financial manager" for Benton Harbor, Michigan, prohibited elected officials of that city from making any decisions or otherwise carrying out their duties. </div></div>

What if....?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>What if Obama Fired State Governments, As GOP Governor Snyder Can Do to Cities in Michigan? And Walker Plans to Do?</span>

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

<span style='font-size: 14pt'> What if President Obama appointed "emergency financial managers" to oversee states in economic distress? What if the president also was empowered to unilaterally dismiss the governments of those states that were billions of dollars in debt and appoint his own overseer who could contract out public services without oversight?</span>

That's a scenario that Charles Showalter, host of the Union Edge radio program, raised today in a conversation with BuzzFlash at Truthout.

<u>First, there would be calls by the Tea Party, Republicans and even a lot of Democrats for Obama's impeachment, and if that didn't work, we might see the National Rifle Association wing of the Tea Party start a shooting war to "reclaim democracy."</u>

So, isn't it hypocritically ironic that declared and de facto Tea Party Republican governors are actually seizing or planning to seize such powers over towns and cities in their states? BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed this out over the weekend <u>in relation to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and the alleged plans of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.</u>

<span style='font-size: 17pt'>Many so-called "red states" lead the nation in receiving more federal funds than taxpayers of those states pay into the Treasury in income tax. That means if federal funding were cut to those states to match their income tax payments, many would likely be forced into virtual bankruptcy. Should President Obama then appoint overseers to administer those state governments?</span>

<u>If not, why should Snyder and his GOP cohorts get away with disenfranchising voters in local communities and towns at their sole discretion? Isn't that a violation of our constitutional right to vote for our own government?

Isn't that a betrayal of the alleged Republican creed that government policies are best determined by local communities? </u> </div></div>

For or against?

Q.. link (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12610)

LWW

04-20-2011, 02:49 AM

Then we would have a totalitarian dictatorship ... and it is obvious to all that this is what the far left pines for.

LWW

04-20-2011, 02:53 AM

[quote=Qtec]
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>What if Obama Fired State Governments, As GOP Governor Snyder Can Do to Cities in Michigan? And Walker Plans to Do?</span>

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

<span style='font-size: 14pt'> What if President Obama appointed "emergency financial managers" to oversee states in economic distress?</span></div></div>

What if this moonbat crazy leftist writer realized that if the feds had to operate under the same rules as the states ... they would be in bankruptcy today.

The states do have the power of the printing press as the feds do, hence they cannot monetize the debt and kick the problem down the road while they spoon feed their minions a pack of lies.

If the left would ever realize this, now that would be quite progressive.

I would be against it both for the action and for the horrendous chance that it would be Obama picking the interims. We have seen how poorly his choices perform. If these guys are not doing what their constituents want them to do then they will be voted out the first chance the voters get.

We talked about Scott Walker's Orwellian rhetoric yesterday, but Michigan Tea Party Gov. Rick Snyder leaves Walker in the dust when it comes to turning the book "1984" into a reality.

<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Snyder recently signed a bill that gives him powers to unilaterally take over local governments by appointing "emergency financial managers" with near absolute powers to supersede decisions made by democratically elected officials.
</span>
If this strikes some as an example of the type of governmental tyranny that the Tea Party deplored (but never existed before in a state as far as we know), that is because it is.

The Tea Party - and the Republican Party - have shouted to the rooftops that local government and individual liberties are the true "patriotic" freedoms in America.

Yet, they elect a governor in Michigan who - as one of his first pieces of legislation - empowers himself to take those rights away, nullifying the will of the voters in a given town or city.

Snyder just made Orwellian Tea Party history when his appointed "emergency financial manager" for Benton Harbor, Michigan, prohibited elected officials of that city from making any decisions or otherwise carrying out their duties. </div></div>

What if....?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>What if Obama Fired State Governments, As GOP Governor Snyder Can Do to Cities in Michigan? And Walker Plans to Do?</span>

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

<span style='font-size: 14pt'> What if President Obama appointed "emergency financial managers" to oversee states in economic distress? What if the president also was empowered to unilaterally dismiss the governments of those states that were billions of dollars in debt and appoint his own overseer who could contract out public services without oversight?</span>

That's a scenario that Charles Showalter, host of the Union Edge radio program, raised today in a conversation with BuzzFlash at Truthout.

<u>First, there would be calls by the Tea Party, Republicans and even a lot of Democrats for Obama's impeachment, and if that didn't work, we might see the National Rifle Association wing of the Tea Party start a shooting war to "reclaim democracy."</u>

So, isn't it hypocritically ironic that declared and de facto Tea Party Republican governors are actually seizing or planning to seize such powers over towns and cities in their states? BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed this out over the weekend <u>in relation to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and the alleged plans of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.</u>

<span style='font-size: 17pt'>Many so-called "red states" lead the nation in receiving more federal funds than taxpayers of those states pay into the Treasury in income tax. That means if federal funding were cut to those states to match their income tax payments, many would likely be forced into virtual bankruptcy. Should President Obama then appoint overseers to administer those state governments?</span>

<u>If not, why should Snyder and his GOP cohorts get away with disenfranchising voters in local communities and towns at their sole discretion? Isn't that a violation of our constitutional right to vote for our own government?

Isn't that a betrayal of the alleged Republican creed that government policies are best determined by local communities? </u> </div></div>

For or against?

Q.. link (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12610) </div></div>

Every day we are seeing more and more of the grand Repiglican hypocrisy exposed to the public.

We are seeing more and more proof, that Democratics are the ONLY party which protects or cares about working Midle Class Americans in our country, who do work hard, and pay their way.

While Repigs are doing what they always do, abusing their power, obstructing progress, and paving the way for corporate thieves, to gouge everyone, as Repigs fight to give them even more opportunities to steal from this country's collective wealth.

The Bush Tax Cuts will represent 60 percent of the deficit by 2019.

Free Market doesn't mean socialized losses, for the wealthy CEO's on the backs of everyone else, as they enjoy privatized profits.

G.

Sev

04-20-2011, 10:14 AM

Fortunately the president cant do that.
The example is a nonstarter.

LWW

04-20-2011, 11:41 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sev</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Fortunately the president cant do that.
The example is a nonstarter.

</div></div>

Don't bet on it.

I don't think Obama has the stones to run a Fidel/Che/Pot/Mao/Stalin/Lenin/Hitler/Amin/Ceaucescu type brutal thugocracy ... but people who yearn for an omnipotent state seem to always eventually find a leader who does.

Sev

04-20-2011, 05:03 PM

He would have to declare marshal law and initiate the insurrection act.

Chances are he would not make it out of such an overstep alive either.

cushioncrawler

04-20-2011, 05:43 PM

1984 aint a soviet story its a hitler story.
But its a pity hitler lost.
mac.

Sev

04-20-2011, 05:49 PM

Its a shame we didnt nuke Russia and China when we had the chance.

LWW

04-21-2011, 02:40 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Sev</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He would have to declare marshal law and initiate the insurrection act.

Chances are he would not make it out of such an overstep alive either. </div></div>

Agreed, he hasn't the stones.

And, even if he did, his ultimate problem is that our military doesn't swear allegiance to the POTUS but to the COTUS ... so any such attempt would lead to a brigade in a shoot out with the Secret Service.

That being said, this regime is slowly laying the groundwork that would make a dictatorship quite likely in the future.

LWW

04-21-2011, 02:41 AM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: cushioncrawler</div><div class="ubbcode-body">1984 aint a soviet story its a hitler story.
But its a pity hitler lost.
mac. </div></div>

actually "1984" was a na statist story. As to Hitler ... most leftists agree with you, but few have the courage to state this in public.

We talked about Scott Walker's Orwellian rhetoric yesterday, but Michigan Tea Party Gov. Rick Snyder leaves Walker in the dust when it comes to turning the book "1984" into a reality.

<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Snyder recently signed a bill that gives him powers to unilaterally take over local governments by appointing "emergency financial managers" with near absolute powers to supersede decisions made by democratically elected officials.
</span>
If this strikes some as an example of the type of governmental tyranny that the Tea Party deplored (but never existed before in a state as far as we know), that is because it is.

The Tea Party - and the Republican Party - have shouted to the rooftops that local government and individual liberties are the true "patriotic" freedoms in America.

Yet, they elect a governor in Michigan who - as one of his first pieces of legislation - empowers himself to take those rights away, nullifying the will of the voters in a given town or city.

Snyder just made Orwellian Tea Party history when his appointed "emergency financial manager" for Benton Harbor, Michigan, prohibited elected officials of that city from making any decisions or otherwise carrying out their duties. </div></div>

What if....?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>What if Obama Fired State Governments, As GOP Governor Snyder Can Do to Cities in Michigan? And Walker Plans to Do?</span>

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

<span style='font-size: 14pt'> What if President Obama appointed "emergency financial managers" to oversee states in economic distress? What if the president also was empowered to unilaterally dismiss the governments of those states that were billions of dollars in debt and appoint his own overseer who could contract out public services without oversight?</span>

That's a scenario that Charles Showalter, host of the Union Edge radio program, raised today in a conversation with BuzzFlash at Truthout.

<u>First, there would be calls by the Tea Party, Republicans and even a lot of Democrats for Obama's impeachment, and if that didn't work, we might see the National Rifle Association wing of the Tea Party start a shooting war to "reclaim democracy."</u>

So, isn't it hypocritically ironic that declared and de facto Tea Party Republican governors are actually seizing or planning to seize such powers over towns and cities in their states? BuzzFlash at Truthout pointed this out over the weekend <u>in relation to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and the alleged plans of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.</u>

<span style='font-size: 17pt'>Many so-called "red states" lead the nation in receiving more federal funds than taxpayers of those states pay into the Treasury in income tax. That means if federal funding were cut to those states to match their income tax payments, many would likely be forced into virtual bankruptcy. Should President Obama then appoint overseers to administer those state governments?</span>

<u>If not, why should Snyder and his GOP cohorts get away with disenfranchising voters in local communities and towns at their sole discretion? Isn't that a violation of our constitutional right to vote for our own government?

Isn't that a betrayal of the alleged Republican creed that government policies are best determined by local communities? </u> </div></div>

For or against?

Q.. link (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12610) </div></div>

As you can see, my friend, this is yet another thread, totally skewed and trashed by the lemmings. They are unable to grasp the irony in your thread, always in a rush, to insult the President, or any Leftie in their midst, so much so, they miss the overall point!

<span style="color: #3366FF"><span style='font-family: Microsoft Sans Serif'>WHY DO YOU HATE WHAT YOU REFER TO AS THE "LITTLE PEOPLE IN FLYOVER COUNTRY" SO MUCH?</span>
<span style='font-family: System'>[/font]</span>

<span style="color: #CC0000"><span style='font-family: Times New Roman'>WHY DO YOU CONTINUE WITH THE FRAUD OF TOTAL IGNORE?</span></span>

<span style="color: #FFCC33">[font:Times New Roman]WHY DO YOU CONTINUE WITH THE "INVISIBLE" THING?</span></span>

<span style="color: #FF9900"><span style='font-family: Verdana'>WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO KEEP A PET PIT POODLE?</span></span></span>

LWW &lt;--- Trying to understand the mindset of the far left.

pooltchr

04-21-2011, 06:00 AM

Trying to understand the mindset of someone who has no history of using logic and reasoning is an effort in futility.

Think of a well trained dog. They don't know why they do the things they do, but if you tell them to sit, lay down, roll over, or speak, they will do it over and over. All you have to do is give them a little treat now and then, and they are quite content.

Steve

wolfdancer

04-21-2011, 11:43 AM

you are trying to claim then that Gayle is stupid, while also implying that you are an intellect?

pooltchr

04-21-2011, 12:55 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wolfdancer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you are trying to claim then that Gayle is stupid, while also implying that you are an intellect?
</div></div>

Since you so frequently read between the lines and think you know the "secret meanings" behind every post, a person of the superior intellect that you claim should probably be able to figure it out for your self.

As for Gayle, well, if the shoe fits....

Steve

LWW

04-21-2011, 02:13 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: pooltchr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Trying to understand the mindset of someone who has no history of using logic and reasoning is an effort in futility.

Think of a well trained dog. They don't know why they do the things they do, but if you tell them to sit, lay down, roll over, or speak, they will do it over and over. All you have to do is give them a little treat now and then, and they are quite content.

Steve </div></div>

I know the answer to all those questions ... because the party told her to believe those things.

Using the word "IMPLY" in this context actually implies there is doubt.

wolfdancer

04-21-2011, 02:57 PM

I don't really consider anybody stupid here...but when the try to come across as THE final authority on a given subject...they look pretty GD dumb to me. You spend an inordinate amount of your time here, trying to put others down by claiming they ain't too bright, and Gayle is one of your prime targets.

Qtec

04-22-2011, 12:18 PM

<span style='font-size: 14pt'>Its the Republicans who are doing it imbecile.</span>

If Obama even had such a thought the GOP would collectively have a heart attack.

Q

pooltchr

04-22-2011, 12:59 PM

You are getting almost as good as Gayle when it comes to name calling.

Steve

Gayle in MD

04-22-2011, 01:14 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: wolfdancer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I don't really consider anybody stupid here...but when the try to come across as THE final authority on a given subject...they look pretty GD dumb to me. You spend an inordinate amount of your time here, trying to put others down by claiming they ain't too bright, and Gayle is one of your prime targets.
</div></div>

A truly sick form of internet, obsessive, compulsive stalking addiction.

After his misogynistic statements, clearly, he's got a "Female" problem.